File for bills, &amp;c.



Nu. 699,968. Patented Apr. 29, |902.

F, K. KBAG. FILE FDR BILLS, &c.

(Application led Jan. 22, 1900.)

(No Modal.)

UNITED l, STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANTZ K. KRAG, OF CHIOAGO,ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO ERIK L. KRAG, OF

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 698,968, dated April 29, 1902.

Application filed January 22,1900. Serial No. 2,291. (No model.)

To aZwv/om it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANTZ K. KRAG, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago,county of Oook,and State of Illinois,have

invented certain new and useful Improvements in Files for Bills and the Like, of which the following is a specification, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

lo This invention relates to that class of files which are designed to clam p a plurality of documents, such as bill-heads, for permanently, yet removably, filing the same.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved form of file of this character which will be cheap of manufacture and simple in use, being especially convenient for the removal and replacing of documents afterling.

The invention consists in a pair of clamp` zo ing-plates between which the documents are to be secured; each plate being provided with a plurality of posts, which enter apertures in the other plate, and a spring-controlled detent bein g provided for securing the two together.

z5 The invention consists in further details of construction, as hereinafter pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 'shows a plan view of the file as applied to a base-board. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the 3o line 2 2 of Fig. 1, the dotted-lines position showing the parts as in the act of separating. Fig. 3 is a detail plan of the iile as applied to a folding cover. Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the same on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3, and Fig.

3 5 5 shows details in cross-section and a plan view of the clasp for securing the cover in its closed position.

A pair of sheet-metal plates 10 11, oblong in form, each carries a plurality of posts, prefer- 4o ably two in number. The posts secured to the plate 10 are shown at 12 12, and their outer ends pass through suitable apertures in the plate 11. The posts fixed in the latter plate are shown at 13 13 and enter suitable apertures in the plate 10.

A slide-plate 14 is mounted upon the outer face of the plate 11 and is secured thereto by means of headed studs 15 16, xed in the one plate, as 11, and passing through longitudi- 5o nal slots in the other plate, as 14. The plate 14 is apertured to receive the ends of the posts 12 12, as shown at 17 18, and the latter posts are provided near their outer ends with notches, as 19 20, for engagement by Jthe plate 14. A contracting spring 21, secured to both the plates 11 and 14, normally holds the latter in engagement with the notches of the posts 12 v12. A finger-piece 22, rising from the plate 14, provides means for manually disengaging this plate from the posts 6o 12 12. l

The file may be secured to a base board or plate 23 by means of rivets, as plainly shown in Fig. 2, or otherwise, and this base-plate may either be in the form of a detached board, so that the file is portable, or it may itself constitute the bottom of a desk-drawer.

Vhen preferred, the file may be incIosed by means of ajointed cover to give it asa whole the book form shown in detail in Fig. 4, In 7o this form of construction the plate 232 constitutes a portion of one side of the jointed cover. A side plate 24 is secu red, preferably,

by means of a tiexiblejoint 25. The other side of the cover consists of the plate 26, to which a side plate 27 is secured by a flexible joint 28, the plate 26 beingsecured 'to the back plate 29 by means of a iiexible joint 31, and this plate is in turn secured to the'plate 23a by a iiexible joint 30. When this form of file 8o is employed, it is desirable that means be provided for securing the cover in its closed p0- sition, and such means are shown, comprising a spring-clasp 32, secured to one of the plates of the cover and preferably to the back plate 29 and being adapted to engagea stud 33,iixed in the plate 11 and projecting through a longitudinal slot 34 in the plate 14.

In use the two plates 10 and 11 are separated by disengaging the detent 14 from the 9o posts 12. The papers to be filed are provided with apertures to register with the several posts 12 13, and after having been applied to one pair of such posts the two plates are again brought together by inserting the other pair of posts through the proper apertures in the papers.

Access is obtained to any of the papers in the le by removing those which may be above v it with the plate 11 and its posts, and when ioo the two members of the file are separated the papers held by each are prevented from being displaced laterally yby reason'of the fact that' a plurality of posts or rods'retain them, and hence the mem bers of the file may be'ins'tan tly and conveniently reunited as the apertures in the papers are necessarily in line and ready for the reception of the entering posts.

I am aware that clamping-files have been used which comprise two plates, each having a pair of posts, but in which such posts entered into engagement telescopieally. The advantage of the construction herein shown and described over such known construction` plurality of `posts 12 fixed in said plate and having lateral notches adjacenttotheir ends; a plate 1l.having apertures'forreceiving the posts 12, a plurality of posts 13 fixed iu the plateV 11 and'entering the apertures of the lplate 10; a plateA 14 insliding engagement with the plate11,andhaving-apertures to receive the. posts 12, and a spring for controlling thisplate so as todraw its solid portions into engagement fwithf the Vnotches 'ot said posts, substantially as described and for the purpose specified.

2. In a file forbills and the like, in combination, a pair of plates; a plurality of posts fixed in each plate and adapted to engage aperturesin the other plate; a jointed cover for inclosing the aforesaid members and to which one of such plates is seeured;and a clasp for detachably engaging the cover with the plate not so secured.l

FRANTZ K. KRAG. 

